Box for holding rolls of welt.



v G.P.STANBON. BOX FOR HOLDING ROLLS 0E WELT.

, APPLIOATION FILED DECKS, 1911.

Patented Oct. 21, 1913.

., WASHINGTON. D..c.

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CHARLES PETER STANIBON, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, assienon T UNI TED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, or PATEBSQN, VNEW' JERSEY, A CORPORATION 'o NEw JERSEY.

BOX .FOR HOLDING RoLLs or WELT.

To on whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES PETER STAN- BON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new useful Improvements in Boxes for Holding Rolls of Welt; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such'as I itself, like a watch spring. WVhen the welt is used, this roll has to be unwound. If the. .roll is laid loose on a bench, or held on a spindle, the welt is apt to be pulled sidewise from the roll so that several of the spirals of the roll are pulled oil at once and the welt becomes tangled.

The object of the present invention is to produce a box for holding the welt roll so constructed that the roll of welt may be' dropped loosely into the box and the welt will be unrolled therefrom without any possibility of the welt being pulled sidewise from the roll or becoming tangled.

Vith the above object in view, the present invention consists in the welt holding box hereinafter described and" particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of the welt holding box shown attached to a welt preparing machine, and Fig. 2 is a side View taken partly in section along the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Referring to Fig. 1 of the drawings, the welt holding box 1 is shown secured to the pedestal 3 of the welt grooving, beveling and slashing machine described and illus-' trated in Patent No. 966384- granted to Charles P. 'Stanbon on August 9, 1910. The welt 5 is drawn fromrthe welt' roll 7 which is held in the box 1 over aguiding roller 9 mounted at one of the upper corners of the box, through guides 11 and 13, through the.

grooving, beveling and slashing devices, and between the feed rolls 15 over a guide roll 17 to the reel 19 upon which the prepared welt is wound.

The welt holding box 1 consists of two flat semi-circular plates 21 and 23 forming Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 9, 1911.

Patented Oct. 21, 1913.

Serial No. 664,864.

the frontiand back side walls respectively of the box. The box is mounted on the lever part of the pedestal 3 of the machine by means of screws 2-1 passing through the plate 23. At its upper left hand corner the :plate 23 is provided with an upward projection 26 upon which is mounted the welt guiding roll 9. The plate 23 has formed around its semi-circular edge a flange 25 which extends inwardly of the box and which forms a semi-cylindrical combined bottom and lateral side walls for the box. At places along the periphery of the plate 23 the flange 25 is enlarged to form lugs 27. The inner or front ends of the lugs 27 are recessed to receive helical springs 29, and the bottoms of the recesses arejprovided with The springs 29 and screws 33 provide an easy adjustment for properly spacing the side plates21 and 23 to accommodate rolls of welt of different width. The springs 29 constantly tend to press the plates 21 and 23 apart, so that all the operator has to do in adjusting the box is to loosen or tighten the screws 33-which afford an accurate screw or micrometer ad ustment for the plates. The

semi-circular bottom of the box keeps the roll of welting 7 in the middle of the box as its diameter gradually decreases. The plates 21 and 23 fit close enough against the sides of the roll 7 so that as the welt is pulled ofi, it cannot slip between the sides of .theroll 7 and the plates 21 and 23 and so become cramped between the side of the welt roll and one of the plates 21 and23. The welt 5 as drawn from the roll 7 over the roller 9 mounted at one corner of the boxis separated from the roll 7 at the bottom thereof so that no, matter what the size of the roll 7 is, the point of separation of the unwound welt 5 from the roll 7 and the portion of the welt about ;to be unrolledis at the bottom of the box and the welt is therefore prevented from being pulled sidewise from the roll by the retaining plates 21 and 23. The fiat plates 21 and 23 act to hold the flat roll of welt in shape so that it cannot be warped into conical shape and so pulled apart or collapsed,

as frequently happens when a welt roll is laid loose on a bench or mounted on a spindle.

The present invention is not limited to the preferred embodiment herein specifically illustrated and described, but may be embodied in other welt holding boxes within the purview of the invention as defined in the following claims l. A box for loosely holding a roll of welt which is to be unrolled having, in combination, two flat plates forming side walls adapted to bear loosely against the sides of the roll of welt and prevent the welt from being pulled sidewise from the roll and means for adjusting said side walls to and from each other to accommodate rolls oi welt of difi'erent width comprising a spring tending to move the plates in one direction relatively to each other and a screw for moving the plates in the opposite direction against the spring, substantially as described.

2. A box for loosely holding a roll of welt which is to be unrolled having, in combination, two flat plates forming side walls adapted to bear loosely against the sides Off the roll of welt and prevent the welt from being pulled sidewise from the roll, one of said plates having an inwardly projecting flange forming the bottom and the other side walls of the box, and means for adjusting said plates to and from each other to accommodate rolls of welt of different width comprising a spring tending to move the plates in one direct-ion relatively to each other and a screw for moving the plates in the opposite direction against the spring, substantially as described.

3. A box for loosely holding a roll of welt which is to be unrolled having, in combination, two flat plates forming side walls adapted to bear loosely against the sides of the roll of welt and prevent the welt from being pulled sidewise from the roll, one of said plates having an inwardly projecting flange forming the bottom and the other side walls of the box, means for adjusting said plates to and from each other to acco1nmodate rolls of welt of different width, comprising springs mounted in recesses in the inner edge of said flange and tending to separate said plates and screws for moving said plates toward each other against the pressure of said-springs, substantially as described.

4:. A box for loosely holding a roll of welt which is to be unrolled having, in combination, two flat plates forming side walls adapted to bear loosely against the sides of the roll of welt and prevent the welt from being pulled sidewise from the roll, one of said plates having an inwardly projecting flange forming the bottom and the other side walls of the box, means for adjusting said plates to and from each other to accommodate rolls of welt of different width, {comprising helical springs mounted in recesses in the inner edge of saidvflange tending to separate said plates and screws engaging both of said plates, extending through said recesses and surrounded by said helical springs for moving said plates toward each other against the pressure of the springs, substantially as described.

5. A box for loosely holding a roll of welt which is to be unrolled having, in combination, two flat plates forming side walls adapted to bear loosely against the sides of the roll of welt and prevent the welt from being pulled sidewise from the roll, one of said plates having an inwardly projecting flange forming the bottom and the other side walls of the box, and means for adjusting said plates to and from each other to accommodate rolls of welt of different width com-v.

prising a screw for attording a micrometer adjustment, substantially as described.

6. A box for loosely holding a roll of welt which is to be unrolled having, in combination, two flat semi-circular plates forming" walls of the box, means for adjusting said semi-circular plates to and from each other to accommodate rolls of welt of different width, comprising springs mounted in re cesses in the inner edge of said flange and tending to separate said semi-circular plates and screws for moving said semi-circular plates toward each other against the pressure of the springs, substantially as described.

CHARLES PETER STANBON.

Witnesses EDITH C. HoLBRooK, FREDERICK L. EDMANDS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,076,073, granted October 21,

1913, upon the application of Charles Peter Stanbon, of Lynn, Massachusetts, for

an improvement in Boxes for Holding Rolls of Welt, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 57, for the Word lever read lower; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the casein the Patent Oifice.

Signed and sealed this lth day of November, A. D., 1913.

[SEAL] R. T. FRAZIER,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

